James MacMillan (1959-)
Cecilia Virgo

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Silence and Music

Gabriel Jackson (1962-)
La Musique

Bernard Rose (1916-1996)
Feast Song for St Cecilia

Sir Richard Rodney Bennet (1936-2012)
Verses on St Cecilia's Day

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
There is sweet music, op. 53 n° 1

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Hymne à Sainte Cécile, op. 27

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
A Hymn for St Cecilia

Sir George Dyson (1883-1964)
Live for ever, glorious Lord

John Gardner (1917-2011)
A Song for St Cecilia's Day, op. 119

Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
Sing, mortals!

Dame Felicity Lott, soprano
William Mason, orgue
Matthew Searles, orgue
The Choir of Royal Holloway
Rupert Gough, direction

La très appréciée Choir of Royal Holloway présente un nouvel ensemble de pièces chorales composées au vingtième et vingt et unième siècles en l'honneur de sainte Cécile, la patronne de la musique. Cet album comprend une nouvelle œuvre de Gabriel Jackson, l'un des compositeurs de musique chorale les plus célèbres d'aujourd'hui, dans laquelle figure Dame Felicity Lott.

A new choral compendium from the highly regarded Choir of Royal Holloway, comprising twentieth- and twenty-first-century works written in honour of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. In many ways it was Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia—first performed on the radio in 1942—that rekindled musicians’ interest in celebrating their patron saint. The Musicians Benevolent Fund revived the tradition of an annual service of celebration for St Cecilia in 1947, and has marked the occasion with a new commission almost every year. Many of the pieces on this recording are the result of those commissions. Also included is a new work by Gabriel Jackson, one of the most popular choral composers of today, featuring Dame Felicity Lott.